Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diminished corn prospects are largely due to the Agriculture Department's payment in kind (PIK) program, which began with this year's crop. PIK is designed to ease the buildup of farm surpluses by giving surplus grain to farmers who idle their land. The program, which some critics label a windfall, brought about a planned 27% drop in the corn acreage planted this year. In July the Government estimated that the reduction would trim the 1983 corn harvest to 6.2 billion...
...immediate point of contention is the installation later this year of American Pershing II ballistic and Tomahawk cruise missiles in Western Europe. The U.S. and its NATO allies quite justifiably insist on the right to deploy new weapons in Europe to redress the military imbalance resulting from the Soviet buildup in recent years, especially the arrival on the scene of some 360 SS-20 ballistic missiles, each with three warheads. The Soviets, quite outrageously but very stubbornly, have made it a cornerstone of their policy that NATO has no such right; not a single new long-range missile...
...Soviets by now have good reason to conclude that deployment will indeed take place. Yet far from positioning themselves in a way that would allow them to compromise at the last minute in INF, they have continued to drop dark hints of a walkout and a buildup...
...take the most prominent example, have been justified by the Administration partly as a response to a reported increase in the number of Cuban military advisers and the quantity of arms from Soviet-bloc countries showing up in Nicaragua. But the significance?and the extent?of that reported buildup is still in dispute within both the State Department and the CIA. Indeed, the maneuvers appear to have been prompted primarily by simple impatience to do something dramatic. It is indicative of the problem that what turned out to be the spectacularly maladroit timing of the start of the maneuvers...
...significance of that buildup was, and still is, in dispute. Some CIA experts thought the actions were aimed primarily at strengthening Nicaragua internally. But the Defense Department was concerned that it might be the prelude to a Nicaraguan strike at Honduras or Costa Rica, another neighboring country from which anti-Sandinista exiles have been conducting guerrilla operations against Nicaragua. The same fear had been expressed by Honduran officials, who were concerned that by letting the main group of contras set up bases and train in their country with U.S. arms, they might be exposing themselves to Nicaraguan invasion. The Sandinistas...